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A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.
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I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.
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